Author: BBC

Unsurprisingly, Mr Trump sees things very differently. He says he built a “perfect company” and rejects that he should be punished for fraud because banks were paid back in full. He continues to repeat claims, without evidence, that his legal challenges are just a plot by elite Democrats to keep him out of the White House. Source link

The presenter thanks his listeners and says he will miss his “partner in crime”, Vick Hope. Source link

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is dead, the prison service of the region where he had been serving his sentence says.The anti-corruption campaigner, once described as the man President Putin “fears the most”, had been in jail since 2021 on charges widely viewed as politically motivated.The 47-year-old survived poisoning attempts and years in some of Russia’s most notorious jails, after his group had exposed corruption at almost every level of the Russian state. Watch some of the most dramatic moments from his career.Video by Lou Newton, Jake Lapham and James Wignall Source link

Oppenheimer and Poor Things are the leading contenders for this year’s British Academy Film Awards. Source link

Donald Trump was hit with a crushing $354m fine, but averted the worst outcome for his business empire. Source link

Overseas dentists may be provisionally registered to work in England without checks, plans say.

The Beatle said he was “incredibly grateful” to be reunited with his bass guitar stolen in 1972. Source link

Along with what Mr Trump has been ordered to pay, his two adult sons and co-defendants, Donald Jr and Eric, must each pay $4m. They are barred for two years from doing business in New York, while another co-defendant, Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been ordered to pay $1m. Source link

Londoner Tarinn Callender is playing Bronco Billy in a new musical based on Clint Eastwood’s 1980 film.Bronco Billy The Musical is a story about chasing your dreams, and Tarinn told BBC London how he is living his.Video by Freddy Tennyson and Claudia RedmondBronco Billy The Musical is on at the Charing Cross Theatre Source link

“This continued smouldering through the winter, I think, is very alarming to see”, especially after Canada’s record-shattering wildfire season last year, said Jennifer Baltzer, a professor of biology at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change. Source link